Was the reason they were such "rough riders" because they indeed utilized bus bodies (meant to ride on rubber tires on highways, not steel wheels in rails)? When I first saw the thumbnail of this photo it looked like someone had parked their aero train right behind a self storage unit...nonetheless, when I see this locomotive I always think of the song "You've either got or you haven't got style" (sung in dapper fashion by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Dean Martin in my parents' soundtrack of "Robin and the 7 hoods")...don't know why that melody has attached itself to the EMD LWT12 in my mind, but it has.
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